---
name: "Monica Howe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/monica-howe"
fi1m_id: "monica-howe"
imdb_id: "nm0397881"
tmdb_id: 989050
wikidata_id: "Q16729939"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:48:09.361598+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Monica Howe

## Identity

Monica Howe

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/monica-howe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** monica-howe
- **IMDb ID:** nm0397881
- **TMDB ID:** 989050
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16729939
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Howe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16729939, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397881/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/989050

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Howe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16729939, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397881/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/989050

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Distant Voices, Still Lives*](https://film.one/film/distant-voices-still-lives.md) (90)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Monica Howe is a British costume designer whose career spanned social realist films and literary adaptations for cinema and television between the mid-1970s and 2000.

Her early credits include *Bugsy Malone* (1976), for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Costume Design, *Scum* (1979) as wardrobe master, and *Made in Britain* (1983). She collaborated extensively with director Terence Davies, designing costumes for *Distant Voices, Still Lives* (1988), *The Long Day Closes* (1992), *The Neon Bible* and *The House of Mirth* (2000), the latter earning a further BAFTA nomination.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Distant Voices, Still Lives* (1988), Fi1m 90, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/distant-voices-still-lives.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The House of Mirth* (2000), Costume Design
- *Born to Run* (1997), series, Costume Design
- *Alive and Kicking* (1996), Costume Design
- *The Neon Bible* (1995), Costume Design
- *Words Upon the Window Pane* (1994), Costume Design
- *Dirtysomething* (1994), Costume Design
- *Don't Leave Me This Way* (1993), Costume Design
- *The Long Day Closes* (1992), Costume Designer
- *Where Angels Fear to Tread* (1991), Costume Design
- *1871* (1990), Costume Design
- *Distant Voices, Still Lives* (1988), Costume Design — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/distant-voices-still-lives.md)
- *Business as Usual* (1987), Costume Design
- *Lamb* (1986), Costume Design
- *Made in Britain* (1983), Costume Design
- *Prostitute* (1980), Costume Design
- *Scum* (1979), as Wardrobe Master
- *That Summer!* (1979), as Wardrobe Master
- *The Cat and the Canary* (1978), Costume Designer
- *Warlords of Atlantis* (1978), as Wardrobe Master
- *Bugsy Malone* (1976), Costume Design

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